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Re: HOWTO: Restore GRUB (if your MBR is messed up)

Originally Posted by Rikko

Hi guys,
The problem I'm having is that Ubuntu installed GRUB onto /hdb1, but my primary partition (as far as my BIOS is concerned) is /sda1
I can run 'grub' and reinstall grub like described by remmelt, but I don't know what the ID of /sda1 is. (hd1,0)? (hd2,1)? What command can I use to get the mapping?
I'm able to boot off the Live CD only at the moment.

From the grub prompt trying using the <tab> key to see what choices you have.